With how many people didn't get the reference last time, I'm not surprised. Glad to see today's generation learn about the Yoakena cabbage.

honesstly, i'd love to see more of these "lessons in anime history" sort of thing explaining in-jokes or references that might have flown over western audiences heads haha

@mirrormimi

2 жыл бұрын

Same!!

@meghenmatta2080

2 жыл бұрын

Please more "Lessons in anime history"

@tridek1949

2 жыл бұрын

Hard agree! This definitely needs to become a recurring series for Ark!

@felipearenas4422

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 👍

I can’t even lie, I never knew the reference until now, I’m grateful that I learned what you were referring to at least

@murphysaburningdeathtrap4983

2 жыл бұрын

For almost every 2nd vid I click on you're in the comments

@Sibula

2 жыл бұрын

I did know cabbage tends to look great but had no idea why

@bruhmyster2104

2 жыл бұрын

bro how the fuck are you everywhear?

@thijs4305

2 жыл бұрын

@@bruhmyster2104 because you are also everywhere, think about that.

@BrazilianImperialist

2 жыл бұрын

You just watched that video right?

Okay, you may not NEED to explain the backstory of the references you make, but I won't lie, I would watch any video you DO put out explaining trends or reference histories in anime. This was kind of amazing. XD

@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup

2 жыл бұрын

This could be a new series for him.

@iota-09

2 жыл бұрын

in the end, anime culture, is culture of its own, and if a green ball that should be cabbage explains why food in anime now looks great... well, that's culture, and culture is interesting.

The cabbage was such a good meme, it's sad the amount of great anime memes that were lost to time

Me from ten minutes ago: There is no way he made a whole video about animated cabbages. Me now: I cannot believe I watched a whole video about animated cabbages, and I don't even regret it.

As an anime boomer myself, I got the reference right away. This infamous cabbage was quite popular on forum threads about "QUALITY" animation back in the early 2000s.

@mayab4575

2 жыл бұрын

I guess I must me an anime boomer as well. My first thought was "wow, that takes me back!"

Knowing there is a specific scene in a specific anime that strongly contributed to the improvement of food in animation is like knowing that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped spark a world war. The fact we can trace the lines of consequence back to those specific events is wild.

The man who directed Crescent Love went on to direct Miname-ke, Mitsudomoe, Yuru Yuri, Sabagebu, Kotoura-san, Love Lab, Himouto Umaru-chan, Gabriel Dropout, and UzaMaid. I like to think he made a decade-long string of lavishly-animated shows just to escape the shame of one poorly-drawn cabbage.

I would love a show where you just talk about anime trivia and references like this. I havent actually watched a new anime in a long time but still watch your vids cause i like your style and want to keep an eye out to put really interesting stuff on the to be watched list.

The year is 2087. Sophie Germaine is doing a PhD in multimedia arts. Her dissertation is about the history of food animation in anime. Dissertation: Chapter 3: "Fruits & Vegetables in Anime", Section 2.1.1. "The History of the Spherical Cabbage".

I'm glad the "no bad cabbages" movement in an anime was a thing. What a time to be alive people.

I’d love to see this spin off into a new series. Something that explains anime references or anime history and how studios honor that history today etc..

I was actually expecting a clip of Mushoku Tensei's Bread to appear. There's just something about that bread and how Rudy breaks it apart that mesmerizes me

I could have lived my whole life never knowing about this cabbage debauchery and been none the wiser, yet somehow I feel more whole for learning this knowledge

Wow. I've encountered a picture of that green ball cabbage before, but thought of it as just one random example of poor animation quality among many others. Never knew this particular one was such a huge thing.

I am old enough to understand reference while watching original video. Perfectly round and smooth cabbage was quite a meme back in the day.

Asking the real questions I see

I feel your pain, Arkada. I, too, am a ball of bad puns and esoteric references.

Honestly, I would love a mini series about some of your favorite references in anime and other little tidbits and fun facts

Of course cabbage can’t look bad, can’t disrespect cabbage man Adachi!

@1810jeff

2 жыл бұрын

Cabbage quite literally fueled a lot of exploration since it can be preserved and is a good source of vitamin c that can grow in places where fruit cannot.

I welcome a full series of explaining classic anime references~

the Hidamari Sketch solution is true genius. tbh I absolutely love it any time an animated show just slaps a real photo of something in there in a deliberately poorly integrated way. It's a gag that for me never gets old. Gumball absolutely loves to do it.

I purchased (and still own) a copy of "Brighter Than the Dawning Blue" back in the day, and remember the brouhaha that the cabbage scene caused. Your entertaining video was a perfect summation of that incident. Well done!

So... this cabbage video is an excuse to explain an outrageously specific reference while simultaneously being an excuse to promote your plushy. Good move.

I must become an animator now, and I must make it my life's work to progressively make worse, and worse cabbage. Brown cabbage, a green lemon, a normal head of cabbage in a lettuce bag, a green square with rounded corners.

We need another explanation video about the infamous "toothbrush scene".

@SystemBD

2 жыл бұрын

A true man of culture, I see.

I would be really interested to see what the actual % of the Glass Reflection viewers actually knew the reference. (I already knew it before this video) I think a community poll would do the trick.

@japzone

2 жыл бұрын

Proud to say I knew of this beforehand. I remember watching that show and laughing at how a green sphere was somehow a cabbage.

honestly more anime trivia and reference explanation videos like this would be great, anime has been mainstream-ish long enough now that even older anime fans like myself will have forgotten stuff(like this cabbages thing!)

I ended up googling your reference from the last video and discovered the answer on my own. It was fun, so was this episode. I really enjoy these kind of back stories to things that have happened in the industry. Thanks for doing this and have a great Holiday!

Makes me think this is why FF15 food looks so good. I'm sure they were highly influenced by this

Thank you for this. This is the kind of content that’s within the anime field, but kind of obscure such that it’s unique for anime lovers, and really interesting

Arkada makes an Arkada plush, and Gaijin Goomba makes a Little G plush, meanwhile Tekking101 makes a plush brick.

a couple months ago i was told to buy lettuce at the grocery store. when I got to the cashier they informed me that i had actually picked cabbage instead, but I pretended that I had meant to buy cabbage the whole time because I was too embarrassed to admit my mistake. I am many years old. don't be like me. the end. thank you for listening to my ted talk.

Imagine being the key animator of The Cabbage. What a legend.

Kind of hope he does more shorts like this explaining random anime stuff haha

Bring back BAD CABBAGE and other crappy quick drawn rough approximated foods, and have it presented by an Overly detailed character.

@richmcgee434

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, make it a literal stick figure character. Or better yet, Clutch Cargo. The bad cabbage will look better by comparison.

Make this a series!!! This was awesome. I saw this unfold back in the day, but completely forgot about it.

That was a really cool video to see, also thanks for the Hayate the Combat Butler recommendation, haven’t heard much about that one before, I’ll put it on the list.

This is the single greatest episode of your channel. Like everyone else commenting, I would love if you did more similar videos about either popular pop-culture references in anime or even just a straight “weird stories about the history of anime”. Keep up the great work!

I doubt if the Cabbages in Konosuba was an indirect referencial joke to this

I'm surprised that people didn't gotthe cabbage reference it was a big meme a few years ago

This is amazing :DDD Thank you for the vid. and yes please explain more refenreces haha

love this you need to do more

I smiled so big at the idea of having my own plushy, that my eyes got teary. I love your use of language and funny references that silly people don’t understand, and everything about your channel. It’s always a pleasure to watch one of your videos. Hope you are having a wonderful start to the new year!

I remember watching Brighter Than the Dawning Blue and seeing the cabbage, but I just thought it was part of the gag of the episode xD

I really enjoyed that explanation! Please do continue to make obscure references so we have the opportunity to get more explanations ;)

I got the reference!! But not because I saw the show, but because that cabbage scene always comes up whenever people talk about "broadcast vs blu ray" screenshots in anime~

I love this. It's like the "Wilhelm scream" of anime.

More videos on 00s anime Just takes me back to old Animax days

Lol. Very interesting.....and it makes sense and like you said its probably not the only reason but is certainly a factor. I would love to see more videos like these if you had the time for them. I am always a fan.....of well all your videos (long time viewer) but the "discussion" type videos I would say. I would love to see a video of just references and puns. Maybe like an "origin series" of anime things. (Like the big sweat drop on the back of heads or the awkward everyone falls down thing you see in a lot of comedies). Keep being awesome Arkada and Stay Frosty.

I am totally down for videos explaining the history behind all of the obscure references. It also means you can make references even more obscure than before, knowing that an explanation will come. This was a fun one. Cheers!

I had no idea there was such a ridiculous backstory to anime cabbages.

@dakotashroom5401

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, a backstory, and it's better than the origin of Konosuba's deadly flying comical cabbage that are, apparently, followed by mimic lettuce, who pretend to be cabbage.

Man it feels weird now growing up watching anime for so long. The medium was just so new it really felt like everyone was on the same page all the time. This new generation is really something

@richmcgee434

2 жыл бұрын

It's not just an anime thing, it's a media proliferation effect. I'm old enough to remember the days before cable TV was widespread. Everyone knew what went on in every show on the air, because we had three and a half channels to choose from and they started on re-runs halfway through each season. Even if you hated a given show you'd still wind up hearing enough other people talking about it to grasp events from week to week through pure osmosis. In hindsight it was a damn nightmare, although we never quite realized it at the time. Cable changed all that within a couple of years, and the rise of the modern internet even more so. Thankfully a time long gone, and with today's endless entertainment choices it'll never return. Be thankful if you didn't have to live through it.

learned about this via the most recent hololive graffiti animation. where noel is eating vegetables and tears a fine detailed cabbage apart, turning it into two low detailed halves.

I googled it after you mentioned it, but I enjoyed the explanation regardless. This is a wonderful tidbit of info.

ok, I think I remember watching an episode, or two of that original anime with the bad cabbage, with the moon princess as a transfer student (the main scene I remember is the other characters holding their breath, while wondering if the princess is about step inside the house with her outdoor shoes on, or if she will take them off first), but I did not remember the cabbage.

@SecretIdentityStudio

2 жыл бұрын

The whole show holds up... as hatewatch material, but then again, that's what people were watching it for in '06, too.

I had no idea! More vids like this one plz.

I'd like to see more of these short explainer video

i would love more reference explanation videos XD

This is the content I'm here for. If all you did for the next year was explain 2chan memes I'd be down with it.

More reference explanations like this would be cool!

i didn't remember the cabbage meme but seeing the clip from the anime, i had seen it! thank you for digging that memory back up

yes please do explain more! that was actually fun

I watched Brighter than the Dawning Blue a few months back and loved it, a really good rom-com with semi-serious bits and some cool action. Great ending too, go watch it if you haven't seen it (oh and liking mid 2000's rom-coms would help).

thank you for making this video explaining what you said in an earlier video which i'm sure made a lot of people like me wonder if there is really truth in the fact that you just stated in passing.

Unexpected video. Interesting premise though. I liked.

you have to do more anime history like this!

I was fully aware of the meme, mainly because Feena Fam Earthlight was "involved", and she's pretty damn fine.

an entire episode of the history of QUALITY threads peak content

This was an interesting anime history event! Thanks for sharing!

that glorious ball cabbage, is it bad that I'm probably from the same era as Arkada and knows exactly what's he's referencing?

This title immediately made me think of the intense shot of the penguin cutting a cabbage in Penguindrum episode 1.

lol imagine after that incident every animator/drawing class now have a special class for cabbage

i remember a vid of yours that showcased said original cabbage sin, found it entertaining and promptly put it out of mind for sanity sake, then you referenced and i _knew_ the ref but not the show, see 'put out of mind' so i spent a few minutes wondering about it and thinking 'ok so what show was that in?' now i have my answer and a much more concise reason behind the trend and the quality of food animation these days. i mean in the tenssura/sslime show, arguably not a food anime, has some gorgeous looking food shions cooking and the giant spider hotpot not included

I did not expect an explanation to this but it was fun to learn. Also great plushie

Might like this as a series wuda been nice to have this type of explanations especially when the references just fly by most of the audience

this was fantastic. more please.

Wow I never knew about this and I've been watching anime for quite a while! I think a series of videos like this about anime culture online could be super interesting!!

I couldn’t find it on your channel but if not you should do a review on Plastic Memories. I’m curious to know your thoughts with the show.

Joke’s on us, this video’s sponsor is actually Big Cabbage of Japan

Damn ... Thanku I was actually confused last time. That video was a really good and this was actually better

Do more reference videos! Even if I know them, I dig the random history.

Glad someone mentioned Hayate the Combat Butler, love that anime.

@anggakarapreviandana2877

2 жыл бұрын

I'm once reading the manga Unfortunately I only started read at vol 29. Ironically, a side doujin (Yes you heard that right) on that manga series inspired me to wrote a series of story based on it.

@DarkLink1996.

2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of, we got Isekai Quartet, so how about a Tsundere Quartet? Shana, Louise, Nagi and Taiga. with Yuji, Saito, Hayate, and Ryuuji, of course

I made a cabbage reference when I saw a green bowling ball and none of my friends got it. So, we've just sat for 9 minutes watching this in the middle of a bowling alley game.

one of the production staff revealed that due to the tight production schedule, they had just drawn a circle without drawing the original, and when they tried to order it from a Chinese subcontractor along with a photo of a cabbage, they forgot to include the photo of the cabbage. It is said that this incident was caused by the fact that the order was placed in a state where the product was not in good condition.

My reaction to seeing the plush "Noooo, No, He didn't, Noooooo. *Breaths Deeply* Why..."

Thanks for the reference 👍👍👍

I would like to see more videos like that one.

And here was me thinking this was just a 'Noodle Incident' reference that doesn't really go anywhere. Neat!

That's a nugget of knowledge right there. And didn't expect to hear about Yoakena ever.

12 years later I now understand why in hidamari sketch the cabbage was like this.

I loved Hidamari Sketch so much. Everyone else I've shown it to says it's boring. Yes it can be, but moments like that cabbage scene is part of the comedy.

Random anime trivia and old memes? Sign me up!

My favorite analogy you did which had me burst out laughing was how bad you thought the Elfen Lied dub was cracked me up so much which is why I subscribed

As the Joker once said “if you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!” XD Loved the video, as always

I'm possibly older than you but not very knowledgeable when it comes to anime (too many hobbies-don't judge), so thank you for the explanation. Loved it!

I loudly awed when you showed the plushie, it's ADORABLE

Looks like bad CG in anime needs its own cabbage moment. Oh wait, we did get Ex-Arm.

most interesting topic yet!